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Robert B. Finley
Known for careful studies of mammals in the American West, this writer produced concise scientific works on wood rats, piñon mice, raccoons, and other species. His surviving books suggest a field naturalist with a strong interest in taxonomy, distribution, and regional ecology.
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A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado
by Robert B. Finley
About the author
Robert B. Finley is remembered through a small body of scientific publications on North American mammals, especially in Colorado and nearby parts of the Southwest. Works associated with his name include The Wood Rats of Colorado, A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado, and A New Piñon Mouse (Peromyscus truei) from Durango, Mexico.
From those titles, he appears to have worked in mammalogy and natural history, focusing on how species were classified, where they lived, and how they spread across western landscapes. Several of his publications are short research studies rather than popular books, which gives his writing a precise, observational character.
Reliable biographical details about his life are limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safer to let the work speak for the man. What comes through clearly is a sustained interest in the wildlife of the Rocky Mountain and Colorado Plateau regions, and a contribution to the record of mid-20th-century American zoology.